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    Nov 05, 2019 5 minutes

    135th birthday congratulations

    Below the title of the austere blue front cover of Issue I of Amateur Photographer, dated Friday 10 October 1884 are the words: ‘A Popular Journal devoted to the interests of photography and kindred arts and sciences.' Now 135 years later, little has changed, as below the title of AP, as it is affectionately known, you can find a similar description: ‘Passionate about photography since 1884.' How many institutions, and AP is an institution and a venerable one at that, can claim such a pedigree of excellence and unstinting desire to bring the world of photography in all its forms so seamlessly to such a wide public within the covers of its publication?

    I have been reading AP since I was a teenager and every week I would

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